The Penn's Grove record., 1887-11-26

step-son, Max Gilman, aged II years
The boy came home on the evening of
the 2lst, after a three months alb
,ence, and Hatzka whipped him with a
strap which had a buckle on it. The
boy was found dead in his bed on the
morning of the 22d, and his face and
Jody are covered with marks of the
strap. The boys mother Is dead. The
lead body Of Miss Priscilla Grier was
found on the Goth in the woods on the
Indiana side Of the Wabash river,
near Allendale, Illinois. Her throat
was terribly lacerated. The girl was
last seen in the company of Frank
Miller, his wife Alice and Simon Null.
The Mlllers claim to have no knowl-
edge of the manner of the girls death,
saying they were all too drunk to know
Anything about it. Miller and Null
nave been arrested. Jerry, the Bum"
a notorious rough, was shot dead by a
piano player in a dance house at
Sturgls, Dak., on the 2lst. "There Is
talk of presenting a public testimonial
20 the slayer" William Baldwin, a
saloon keeper in Chattanooga, Tenues.
see, attacked three policemen with "A
revolver on the 22d, because they had
arrested his driver on "A charge of SELL
ing liquor on the 10Th without a license.
Baldwin was shot and killed and Pu-
iiceman Howard was shot In the head
and will probably die. II. III. Ferg-
neran was assaulted by an ex-convict
while Of his way home in Hopkins
vile, Kentucky, on the evening of the
2lst, and his money demanded. Re-
fuslng to give up his money, the robber
shot him dead, and then escaped.
~ despatch from Anna, Illinois,
says the forest fires are still raging In
that vicinity. The huge winds on the
10Th scattered them over a much larger
territory than formerly, and It is said /,
he almost impossible to check them.
Sew farm buildings have been
bp ID Bridges, trees and telegraph
res on the lines of 10th the Illinois
Central and Mobile and Ohio Railroads
have been burned and traffic is consid.
erably delayed. 1t is stated thai the
woods are on fire for a radius of fifty
miles in every direction from Cairo,
out no damage Is reported beyond the
burning of a few fences and some uu-
gathered corn. The smoke from tn
burning forest is very dense and inter.
rupts navigation on the river to "A
great extent. The sky at Memphis and
st. Louis continued obscured on the
I'D by smoke from the forest fires in
the country south and west OF tho u,
cities. These fires are especially destruc-
tive in the region between Memphis
and Birmingham, Alabama.
Henry Koch, fifty years old, an i'll
mate of the Lancaster county, Penna..
prison, awaiting trial on the charge of
obtaining money on false pretences,
committed suicide on the 22d by hang
ing himself.
Gilbert Carter, aged II years, his
wife, an invalid, about the same age.
and Mrs. John Pepper, housekeeper,
were ~asphyXiated in their sleeping
rOOms II their home in Hudson, New
prkaxe~the evening of the 2lst, by
rss~s a coal stove. There are but
slight lopes of their recovery.
"A piece of gas pipe, ten inches
| ing, plugged with hard wood and wiyn
a partly burned fuse inserted in a vent
hole, was found among the leaves in
the yard of Governor Oglesby's house,
in Springfield, Illinois. on the list.
The police tested the supposed bomb
by throwing 1t into a fire, anu discov-
cred that it was empty. A gas-pipe
bomb, six inches in length and of the
usual description. was found on the
doorstep OF United States Marshal
Marsh's house, in Chicago. 1t was
turned over To the police. A bomb was
found IN the evening of the 22d, in the
Times office at Cincinnati. 1t was
under a Typewriter case, and consisted
a four inch piece of gas pipe plugged
at both ends, and with fuse attached.
How 1t got there is unknown.
The official returns of the vote of
Ohio for Governor were on the 22d,
given out from the Secretary of States
Office In Columbus: Foraker, Republic
received 356, 937 votes; Powell,
1873, 2O5; Seitz Union-Labor,
"a, Tl2; Sharp, Prohibition, 90 700.
plurality, 23,732. The total
vote cast was FAC, 6S6.
The local election in Providence,
Island, was held on the 22l.
There was no choice for Mayor, the
vote for that office standing: Robbins,
1887; McNally, 3ll2; Miller, 1914:
Blodgett, 2SS. A majority is required
" elect, and another election must be
called within ten days. and then also a
ma. ority will be required to elect. Ths
Con. mon Council stands: Republicans,
20; Democrats, IL. Aldermen-ae-
publicans, =; Democrats, 2.
"A telegram from Plaludeid, Indi-
ana, says a most startling report was
from Fishers Station, "a
small village Is miles no. tlieast of
there, on the morning OF the 22i, say
NJ that since the opening OF a natural
we'll at that place "A few days ago,
had been "A perceptible settlement
,f the earth of sew Ial inches, and that
The whole population of the village and
country are terrified be-
FOND description.
Major A. NJ. Way, the ~defaultiug
secretary of the Empire Building Loan
Association, i'll New Brunswick, New
was arrested III Brooklyn, on
he 22d. All owe S205S of the asso-
claim is outlawed. The total
oss of the association through Ways
Is about Slg0JO.